Living in a net-zero carbon economy
For 300 years, industrial economies have prospered by emitting carbon.
The coming decades will be defined by an opposite approach: building a net-zero carbon economy.
The entire value chain needs rethinking with new technologies and models that promote the goal of reducing atmospheric carbon concentrations without compromising on well-being and prosperity.
The future economy must not only reduce its carbon emissions but actively remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits. This relies on innovative technologies, sustainable practices, and robust policies that integrate industrial processes with natural biogeochemical cycles.
Understanding and shaping this new economic paradigm is essential to providing quantitative and narrative analyses of socio-economic systems in the context of a sustainable and resilient future.
CMCC analysis and research
- Integrate biogeochemical processes with industrial processes
- Describe climate system responses to climate neutrality policies
- Integrate physical and analytical models that support carbon management and the net-zero carbon transition
Director
Shayegh Soheil
Strategic Program
Integration of the planetary biogeochemical and industrial carbon cycle
Know more about the CMCC strategic programs
CMCC builds its research agenda around a set of strategic programs that respond to frontier issues.
These are crucial to understanding the challenges facing socio-economic systems in an environmental and social context characterized by a changing climate.